Toushe Kuwa

Date CapturedJanuary 16th, 2025 at 08:18 UTCCameraDC-S5M2LensLUMIX S 20-60mm F3.5-5.6Apertureƒ / 3.8Shutter Speed1/320 secFocal Length24.0 mmISO100Exposure Value12.2 EVOriginal Size3600 × 2400

A Siraya Indigenous kuwa (公廨) dedicated to Alizu (阿立祖), located a few hundred meters north of the Toushe settlement in Danei. According to tradition, the shrine was built at a distance because the spirits prefer quietness and dislike the noise of human habitation. The current structure dates to 1983 and was loosely modelled after Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei; due to the laws of the time, which had no provision for registering a kuwa, it was formally registered as Taishang Longtou Yimin Temple (太上龍頭忠義廟). The shrine is best known for the annual Night Ceremony (夜祭) on the fifteenth of the tenth lunar month, during which participants dressed in white link hands to dance in honour of the ancestral spirits.